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trigger
10-19-2007, 12:13 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/nyregion/19otb.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10192007/news/regionalnews/mike_warns__ill_put_otb_out_to.htm

samyn on the green
10-19-2007, 12:30 PM
OTB is not closing, do not let the media fool you. Bloomberg is setting the table for the future. OTB wants the NYRA signal for free when the slots at Aqueduct kick in. By claiming poverty and threatening to shut down the parlors the city is twisting the arm of Albany to give OTB the NYRA signal for free. The representives in Albany stock OTB with valuable no show patronage jobs , these politicians can not accept losing those jobs. The city will claim that without a free NYRA signal that OTB can not operate. Once again NYRA and racing gets the shaft. This is how the govenment works in New York.

samyn on the green
10-19-2007, 12:40 PM
Read the NY Post article. Your common media lemming will read that and think that OTB props up NYRA. $97 million went to "rescue NYRA [the New York Racing Association] and the New York racing industry from its monetary failures and allow the state to take credit for benefiting local horse breeders." OTB books hundreds of millions on NYRA racing but does not want to pay for the signal. OTB considers the signal fee a rescue. OTB is a parasite here in New York for the racing industry.

badcompany
10-19-2007, 12:59 PM
Once again NYRA and racing gets the shaft. This is how the govenment works in New York.

NYRA pretty much brought this on itself. If I'm not mistaken, NYRA had the chance to run OTB from the start, but balked because they were afraid that people wouldn't go to the track. In reality, the only people who went to the track were unemployed or retired. OTB opened up the game to people with jobs.

ponyplayerdotca
10-19-2007, 01:06 PM
This is the same state government that sees both the local NFL teams playing in a neighbouring state at an aging facility.

That is another gross indication of how bass-ackwards NY state is when it comes to pillaging their professional sports entities of their ability to earn a living.

samyn on the green
10-19-2007, 01:15 PM
NYRA pretty much brought this on itself. If I'm not mistaken, NYRA had the chance to run OTB from the start, but balked because they were afraid that people wouldn't go to the track. In reality, the only people who went to the track were unemployed or retired. OTB opened up the game to people with jobs.That was 1970-1971. That 37 year old decision is ancient history. The state/city running OTB does not justify OTB dragging the racing industry down.